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Delaware State University understands the unique needs of undergraduate transfer students. They have busy schedules and need to make quick decisions-- the admissions process needs to be clear and simple and a designated Transfer Coordinator is needed to ease the process.
Application Procedures and Policies
Applicants who have previously attended other institutions of higher education will be considered for admission at the University.
Application Procedures
The following materials are needed from Transfer Students in order to be considered for DSU admission:
- A completed application [1] and non-refundable application fee of $35.00;
- An official final high school transcript;
- Official transcripts from all institutions of higher education attended;
- SAT or ACT test scores if not transferring in 12 credit hours or more at a GPA of 2.0 or better; and
Application Guidelines
The following guidelines will help transfer students know whether they meet DSU's admissions criteria.
- Applications from transfer students can be from two-year colleges, four-year colleges, and universities accredited by their respective regional association.
- Official transcripts from all colleges or universities attended must be submitted for admission consideration.
- The cumulative GPA must be 2.00 or above.
- College course credits obtained within the last 10 years are not accepted automatically and will be at the discretion of the appropriate department.
- Courses to be transferred must be equivalent to respective DSU courses. Credits are evaluated according the specific academic program the student is applying to.
- Credit cannot be granted for correspondence courses.
- In instances where courses from other colleges or universities only partially fulfill general education requirements,students will need to make up the credit hours shortage in the same department.
- Course grades must at least be a "C" in order for the transfer credit to count. Grades of "C-" cannot transfer.
- Students who have been placed on academic probation, suspended or dismissed from previous institutions cannot be considered for admission to Delaware State University.


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Release Notes: This version adds some inform/query API to integrate with texture rectangles, support for audio extension formats like FLOAT32 and MC (Multi Channel 5.1, 7.1, etc.), bigger/better buffer size on demos, a better mlplayer info HUD, and demo key mapping handling. It also fixes the idUnload API (automatic object unloading code).
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Taxis >Saugus Taxi
74 Hamilton St, Saugus, MA | Directions 0190642.465364 -71.002246
I am 68 years old and this company offers a 20% senior discount. This is especially helpful when you are on a fixed income and prices are so high. I use them all the time and they are just wonderful people. Thank you so much Joe and Anthony for all your help.
James Dudly
Laural Gardens
Saugus Ma
Great company I lost my License a year ago and these guys saved me...never been late once and will tell you if there is a long wait.Other company's I have tried tell you 5 min and take 30 not these guys they give you an honest time. Thank You
Great Company – Made a set time for pick up the day before They where on time picked me up at the holiday inn in saugus ma at 430am to go to logan the cab driver was very nice man from Saugus named Joe no issues what so ever!!
Thanks again Joe
Would not recommend – I am saying this as an ex driver. I remember when I was with them they had a cab they put the wrong fuse in so there was no light and it's a cheap part so ya think with what they make they would fix it, right? They didn't and the car eventually caught fire.
The condition of almost all of the cabs was deplorable. I remember one time driving one down the highway and they wouldn't fix the shocks so when it would get to 40 it would shake.
Those are just 2 of the cabs I remember not being properly taken care of.
The way they treat their drivers I'm surprised people still apply. There were nights I would work a 12 hour shift and not even take home all of my tips because of how they charged us.
This Driver was fired for somthing he did wrong at the company.
Never again!!! – I tried Saugus Taxi three times in the last year, they were over a half hour late every time. I called the night before for a pickup in the morning and they were still late. I'm posting this so it doesn't happen to anyone else. I was late for work three times because of them. Time to find a different Taxi company.
best in saugus – They are on time cheap and one of the best taxisi have used in a long time. The driver was nice and helped with bags and gave me 20% off the fare
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Every Sunday, Patch will help you catch up with the big news happening in nearby towns, bringing you the big (and interesting) stories from Patch sites along Woodward Avenue and beyond.
Here's what's been happening nearby this week:
BLOOMFIELD: Police: Woman With Six OWI Convictions Arrested After Crash in Bloomfield Township
Bloomfield Township police said the 52-year-old woman also had a loaded gun and stolen credit cards in her possession.
WEST BLOOMFIELD: Candles the Cause of Condo Blaze in West Bloomfield
Crews arrived within minutes to contain the structure fire to one room; No injuries reported.
TROY: Crosstown Hockey Rivalry Ends in Fight at Troy Sports Center
Students, parents and alumni from Troy and Athens high schools took to social media on Wednesday night to discuss the brawl.
ROYAL OAK: City Commissioner Cleared of Ethics Charge but New Questions Raised in Email
A six-page legal opinion clears Jim Rasor of inappropriate actions. But more questions surface in an email to commissioners.
Council members approved graphic design and branding for the new city website on Monday. What do you think of the new look?
"I hope the kids understand it was not an easy decision," to accept the head coaching job at Novi High School; the move will allow him to spend more time with his family.
CLAWSON: Julian Brothers Bake Up Holiday Favorites
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Jonah Hill Gossip
Jonah Hill gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
22 Jump Street?
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill were photographed on the set of 22 Jump Street yesterday. That's apparently the title of the 21 Jump Street sequel, presumably written again by Jonah Hill. I liked the first movie, mostly because I thought Tatum was great – fearless, willing to be the joke, without vanity. Full Story
Jonah Hill is not Gwyneth Paltrow
Jonah Hill was pissy with a Rolling Stone journalist recently. Click here for a refresher. He was widely snarked on for his behaviour. Jonah has now snarked back at the snark, telling Salon that: You can dis me all you want on a blog, or write whatever you want in this magazine and I'll just be like, 'Whatever, man. Full Story
Jonah Hill is serious, bro
To promote This is the End, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, James Franco and Jonah Hill were interviewed for a cover feature on Rolling Stone. Among that group, who do you think would come across as the most pompous and least fun? If you guessed Jonah Hill, you guessed right. And in a group that includes Franco, who's built a vacation house up his own ass, that's kind of a problem. Full Story
Jakey and all his friends
Splash, Pacific Coast News
It was Friend Day for Jake Gyllenhaal yesterday in New York. He had lunch with his End Of Watch co-stars America Ferrera and David Harbour (if you haven't already, you should see End Of Watch, it was one of my Top 10 of 2012) and they were joined by Jonah Hill. This is why Celebrity Friendships are so fascinating. Full Story
Tagging along with Leo
In this case, We Are All Jonah Hill. Look at him with Leonardo DiCaprio in Sydney the other day, gratefully accepting his role as Bro of Leo, down with his boy at all times of day and night, whatever he needs, and keeper of all secrets, honoured to have been bestowed the position. For now? But wouldn't it be amazing if one day, Jonah Hill pulled a Truman Capote on the Pussy Posse? "All literature is gossip", Capote said, so there's your answer the next time some pretentious twat tries to make you feel like sh-t for caring about the time Ben Affleck went to a peeler bar and slipped his finger inside when a dancer was on his lap. Full Story
Jonah doesn't like bellmen (or CNN)
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Jonah Hill: Worst Oscar Expectations
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We talk soooo much about wanting the Oscar, or not wanting it. Campaigning, or not. This seems to be one step away from "being prepared if you win" or not. When Christopher Plummer took the stage last night, I felt relaxed almost instantly. He had us. He wasn't going to let the moment be awkward. Full Story
The Actors 2012
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As Academy President Tom Sherak joked yesterday at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon:"We know awards season can be exhausting. Today is about taking a moment, taking a breath and realizing what a special family this is… So take the applause. This is probably the last time you'll be applauding each other. Full Story
DVDs & Oscars
Moneyball was released in theatres in September. It is no longer in (most) theatres. In fact, it's now available on DVD. It was available on DVD 3 weeks ago, on January 10th. Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill are now making the press rounds in New York...to promote the DVD???Every day I get yelled at by Brangelunatics fighting against the reality of the "campaign". Full Story
Thin, single, and getting paid
As you know, Jonah Hill being skinny was freaking me out. I wrote about it in relation to his "fu", click here for a refresher. Jonah was out last night in Hollywood. Is it just me or has there been an improvement?Jonah is apparently now single, having broken up Full Story
Brad speaks in shapes
Everyone fixated last week on the part in the Parade article where Brad Pitt called his life with Jennifer Aniston "dull" and "pathetic". What was overlooked then was the rest of the interview, a rather insightful one. And this piece of gold: Parade: What attracts you to architecture and design?Pitt: I speak best in shapes. Full Story
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TIFF 2011: Sasha's Watch List
Written by Sasha Starting today some serious star wattage will be hitting the streets of T-dot. My peepers will be wide open for the flyest gear, but before it starts rolling out let's get our s-TIFF-ies for who's coming to town. Full Story


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The only thing I should be drinking is an ice cold beer
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The Latics revealed the news on their official website: "The club can confirm that today's Barclays Premier League match against Sunderland at the DW Stadium WILL GO AHEAD as scheduled at 3.00pm.
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Oregon 2,000 ft Prominence Peaks > Paulina Peak / Newberry Crater > Climber's Log
Paulina Peak / Newberry Crater Climber's Log
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|Washboard Road From H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2012
|I was already heading north to Bend, and it was not quite sunset, so I took a nice side-trip to Newberry Crater and Paulina Peak. Nice views at the top. It was really interesting to see the massive lake-filled caldera remnant, below. Make certain to scurry ~14' up the nearby rock outcrop to the true highpoint.
The Paulina Peak Road is the one deterrant for this peak. The road was in good condition... except for the nearly four miles of almost constant washboard effect. It was shaking my car like crazy; my car felt like a human popcorn maker.
This was the sixth of seven Top 100 Oregon peaks I summited during a 3-1/2 day timeframe.
|Posted Jul 24, 2012 7:01 pm
|Nick Turtura
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2012
|Took the kids up on a hot sunny day and encountered the biggest hail I've ever seen. Awesome.
|Posted Jul 9, 2012 1:46 am
|Long walk.
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2011
|Hour and 20 minutes up and the same down. Nice walk for the mountain we had been on (closed to cars still). Summit was gorgeous with great views of the cascades from Adams to Thielsen. Very nice place.
|Posted Jul 8, 2011 10:38 pm
|Drive up
|I think I could see every major Oregon volcano
|Posted Jan 27, 2011 11:54 pm
|Josh Lewis
|First Drive up
|For the longest time this was Michael's highest summit and my first drive up peak.
|Posted Jan 13, 2011 10:36 pm
|Troy B
|Drive Up
Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2010
|After heading up to the summit of South Sister in the morning we drove up to the summit of Paulina Peak. Amazing view of the lakes and crater.
|Posted Oct 3, 2010 6:05 pm
|Paulina Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2010
|I was working down here in Oregon, so when I got off early I drove up Paulina. I would have hiked it if I had the time.
|Posted Jul 14, 2010 11:01 pm
|Lovely Area
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2007
|Alway enjoy seeing volcanic features, this was a very nice park to visit while in the area.
|Posted Jun 10, 2010 2:34 am
|15 mile dayhike
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2000
|Hiked up from Hot Springs campground (6400') to peak from crater rim via Lost Lake and Obsidian Flow trails. Beautiful weather, nice views.
|Posted Mar 16, 2010 4:00 pm
|Mike Lewis
|Shamefully drove.
Date Climbed: Oct 15, 2006
|My family wanted to visit Oregon and we just happened upon this gem on our drive south. It was a hard fifteen step climb to the top with a most stupendous view of the inside of a cloud.
I did not feel successful, but at 7,985 feet, I guess it was a summit.
|Posted Mar 16, 2010 1:07 pm
|Drove with no shame
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2007
|Very nice surprise, this area is really cool. Pictures and map at http://www.willhiteweb.com/oregon_climbing/newberry_national_volcanic_monument/paulina_peak_054.htm
|Posted Aug 18, 2009 3:10 am
|been to the top
|Posted Mar 5, 2009 12:25 pm
|Paulina Peak Road
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2008
|Drove up. Great views and beautiful area.
|Posted Nov 18, 2008 3:30 pm
|On bike
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2008
|Found a spot to park about 3/4 of a mile short of the summit and rode the rest of the way up. Great views of the caldera and lakes. Don't expect solitude on a nice sunny late summer day. Probably 50+ people on top. Still a nice end to a great 4 day trip.
|Posted Sep 12, 2008 1:27 pm
|Beautiful area
|Great area when it's not too hot.
|Posted Sep 10, 2008 10:51 pm
|while in the area
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 1983
|Date is a bit of a guess. I was staying at the Paulina Lodge, while working on a scientific drilling project. Wife and I walked to the top.
|Posted Jan 2, 2008 2:56 pm
|Drive Up
|I cheated, but the parents were in town. A great view of the lava flows, lakes and across the valley to the Sisters. A very unique place.
|Posted Aug 22, 2007 1:33 am
|Oregons other natl park?
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2006
|I had originally planned a climb of broken top mountain but the three sisters were closed due to forest fires. I had never visited newberry crater. It was time to give the park it"s due. I had driven most of the morning and Paulina peak does have a road to the summit. I parked at the trailhead for the peak down on the main park road and hiked the approximatly three miles to the summit. A good aerobic workout with summits to scramble to on the north side of the peak. I proceeded over to where people drive there cars and mingled with other tourists. I found that thr restrooms on top of Paulina peak are the highest public restrooms in Oregon. The views of the caldera and cascades to the west are awesome. I really enjoyed my visit.
|Posted Sep 17, 2006 7:43 pm
|Drive up
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2006
|Why hike when you can drive. Best way to get my wife to see the views. Besides, there are plenty of other peaks around to inflict suffering upon myself. Beautiful views of Paulina Lake and East Lake as well as the Big Obsidian Flow.
|Posted Sep 13, 2006 9:11 am
|Route taken: Forest Service Road
Date Climbed: Jun 15, 2002
|I visited this peak with my 8-year old daughter Jackie. We found the benchmark on the peak and got some good photos. Others in our group didn't make the effort to come up from the parking lot. We got a good view of East Lake and the obsidian flow that we had explored earlier on foot. Newberry Crater is a National Monument worth visiting.
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And so on it goes.
Like a lover trying to dance with a too-aggressive partner, the thick blades of the fan tussle with the hot air, jerking it from one side to the other until the air manages to escape where it settles sullenly and heavily in the corners. Yet the fan has no purpose if not for the syrupy air, so it continues to woo it upwards, only to toss it, scorned, to the opposite corner again and again.
SNAP. The light switch cuts the power, and like a dying moth the blades circle slower and slower, while the air gathers strength, and despite its relief from the fan's temporary powerlessness, it's easy to see that the fan and the summer air need each other.
The room is stifling.
She looks up from the deep seated chair where she is reading, the leather seat immediately beginning to cloy to her flesh as the room heats up.
"Why'd you turn the fan off?" The accusatory tone travels the short but well worn path between the two of them.
He throws his hands up in the air, just as she expects him to, and says, "Fine. You want to pay the electricity bill this month, go right ahead."
He snaps on all the light switches so that the fan and every light in the room flip on [as she had insisted they all be tied to the light switch as she wanted always to be able to see what was in a room before entering it]. The lights in the bright sunlight seem an affront to everything.
"A fan costs 25cents a day to run. That's less than you spend on your stupid café mochas!"
This again. The fan jumbles the same tired waltz of words around them until they clutter the room, filling the space between then and blocking each one's view of the other.
After the words have all been said again and again, there seems only one final question left to ask:
How did we get here?
"You tell me. You're supposed to be the smart one!"
This story is no stranger to anyone who has walked this lonely path – as an enabler, no matter if even unknowingly, you always know something is wrong, even if you can't define it.
The worst part about these stories is their sad tragedy that they all share, the nastiest irony usually comes later often after a steep price has been paid, when the enabler discovers, with a mix of relief and horror at the unnecessariness of it all, that his or her grief and suffering is not unique.
Their story is not unique.
Their love is not unique.
They are not unique.
Sobering, a befitting word, and heartbreaking. One day soon I will tell this part of my story fully so that others may also know that they are not alone.
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Twan Huys to Lecture on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2005, on August 25 at the Clark
For Immediate Release
August 14, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an internationally renowned spokeswoman for the rights of Muslim women, was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2005. Twan Huys, anchor of the Dutch current affairs television show NOVA, will discuss "The Rise and Fall of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Netherlands (...and why she will be a star in the United States)" on Saturday, August 25 at 2 pm, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Huys' lecture will discuss the impact Hirsi Ali had in the Netherlands and her influence in the United States. Admission to this lecture is free.
Somali-born Hirsi Ali arrived in the Netherlands as a refugee in 1992 and was elected to the Dutch Parliament in her early 20s. She faced death threats after collaborating on a film about domestic violence against Muslim women with director Theo van Gogh (who was himself assassinated) and now works for the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Hirsi Ali recently published her memoirs in Infidel.
Huys will discuss Hirsi Ali's story as he experienced it working on a documentary about this controversial figure. His film, De Gelukszoeker (The Pursuit of Happiness), follows Hirsi Ali's downfall in the Netherlands and her rise in intellectual circles in New York and Washington. For seven years Huys was correspondent for Dutch Public Television in the United States and recently covered the murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
This lecture is organized in collaboration with NL: A Season of Dutch Arts in the Berkshires, a summer-long cultural exchange that showcases vibrant arts from the Netherlands and is the most extensive presentation of Dutch arts and culture ever to be held in the United States.
The Clark is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, MA. The galleries are open daily from 10 am to 5 pm in July and August (closed Mondays September through June). Admission June 1 through October 31 is $12.50 for adults, free for children 18 and under, members, and students with valid ID. Admission is free November through May. For more information, call 413-458-2303 or visit www.clarkart.edu.


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Spring is in the air and it's time for the annual Folk & Roots Music Fundraising Marathon! We hope this year's lineup will dazzle you with diverse music programming both recorded and live from our studios and the Prism Coffeehouse. In return, we ask you to give your financial support to WTJU, one of the last outposts of free-roaming radio programming in the country. We also encourage and challenge you to spread the word by telling your friends about the marathon and the special programming we have to offer.
We're blessed with such wonderful volunteers at WTJU, and I would especially like to thank Rebecca Foster for this year's wonderful t-shirt design. I'd also like to thank Mare Hunter and George Dayton for their tireless help, and the WTJU office staff. Most importantly, I'd like to thank you, the listener, for your generous support of WTJU both financially as well as the letters and calls we get throughout the year. Without your help we couldn't continue. So take a look at this lineup, tune in to all your favorites, give us a call at 434-924-3418 and tell your friends!
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The strategies presented in this post support the National Research Council's recently published report calling for broad goals to which juvenile justice reform should be directed: holding youth accountable for wrongdoing, preventing further offending, and treating youth fairly.
The National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry. Learn more...
The Reentry Policy Council
The Reentry Policy Council was established in 2001 to assist state government officials grappling with the increasing number of people leaving prisons and jails to return to the communities they left behind. The Reentry Policy Council was formed with two specific goals in mind: to develop bipartisan policies and principles for elected officials and other policymakers to consider as they evaluate reentry issues in their jurisdictions and to facilitate coordination and information-sharing among organizations implementing reentry initiatives, researching trends, communicating about related issues, or funding projects.
The Reentry Policy Council is a national project coordinated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. The Justice Center provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies – informed by available evidence – to increase public safety and strengthen communities.
The National Reentry Resource Center
Funded by the Second Chance Act of 2008, and launched by the Council of State Governments Justice Center in 2009, the National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.
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Oregon Promotes Prison Visits to Combat Recidivism
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New Lucas County Jail Plan Addresses Mental Health
A proposal to construct a new Lucas County jail wouldn't just include a larger facility that would house more inmates — it would be accompanied by a community plan to treat mentally ill inmates and those with substance-abuse problems.
Deal Signs Prisoner Re-entry Bill into Law
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed intended to reduce recidivism and help prisoners successfully re-enter society. Senate bill 365 was signed at a church in Gainesville by the Governor
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We spend a lot of time talking about improving fertility within the milking herd, but we tend to overlook heifer fertility. One reason for this oversight is that the national average conception rate for heifers is 57%, a number producers can only dream of achieving in lactating cows.
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Often, improper semen handling or AI technique can cause poor fertility. Periodic re-training of those responsible for AI can help. Estrus detection is more complex because we not only rely on heifers to show us estrus, but we also have to correctly interpret the signs of behavioral estrus. Until recently, if you failed to detect heifers in estrus, then you couldn't inseminate them, and they couldn't get pregnant!
Current protocols for synchronization of ovulation and timed AI in lactating cows result in poor fertility in dairy heifers compared to AI after a detected estrus. The reason for this difference is the ovarian physiology between these two groups of animals differs. The standard seven-day interval between GnRH and PGF does not work well, even when a CIDR is used during those seven days.
Researchers at the University of Florida recently published a new variation of the Ovsynch protocol for use in non-lactating heifers. In this protocol, the interval between GnRH and PGF was shortened to five days, compared to the traditional seven-day interval, and heifers also received a CIDR device during those five days. The final GnRH was administered along with timed AI 72 hours after PGF (i.e., Cosynch). The conception rate for this group was 53%.
A second study used the same five-day CIDR sync protocol, but with the addition of a second PGF injection 12 hours after the first injection for half of the heifers. Although this second PGF injection has proved to be critical for synchronizing lactating dairy and beef cows, there was no difference in conception rate (50% for both groups) after protocols with one or two injections of PGF.
In addition, several studies compared use of conventional vs. sex-sorted semen with timed AI after this protocol. The reduction in fertility due to sexed semen was similar to previous studies comparing conventional vs. sex-sorted semen after a detected estrus in dairy heifers. Thus, this synchronization protocol can be used in conjunction with sexed semen rather than having to detect heifers in estrus.
In summary, yes, the conception rate for even the most successful heifer synchronization protocols still falls short of the national average heifer conception rate. If fertility is good in your heifers and you do not have problems with estrus detection, by all means, keep up the good work! However, if good estrus detection is a problem on your farm, the five-day CIDR sync protocol can boost your service rate and also provide acceptable conception rates to help you work toward the goal of an average age of 22 to 24 months at first calving.
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AMONG THE JOYS of film festivals is the chance to experience works from other countries, to suss out the differences -- and similarities -- in our various cultures. By that criteria, the Icelandic drama Jitters is not all that different from the U.K.'s Skins (though it's considerably tamer) or Larry Clark's still-bracing 1995 drama, Kids.
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Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 by German immigrant Marcus Goldman when he opened a commercial paper business on New York City's Pine Street.[1] The business was restructured in 1989 when the Goldman Sachs Group, LP was formed to serve as the Goldman parent company. In 1996 the Goldman Sachs Corporation, owned by a partnership of Goldman's managing directors, became the Group's sole general partner.[2]
Following that time, Goldman continued to grow its earnings and posted solid year-on-year increases in total net revenues and earnings per share in the 2005-2007 financial period.[3] Total net revenues jumped more than $10 billion from 2006 to just under $46 billion in 2007 while earnings per share rose from $19.69 to $24.73 over the same period, as investment markets prospered.
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But Goldman took a big hit in the first quarter of 2008, particularly on investment banking revenue, after mortgage and credit markets slumped worldwide in 2007. Its first-quarter '08 profit dropped 53 percent to $1.47 billion, with losses of $1 billion in mortgages and securities and another $1 billion in credit markets.[4] Goldman's profit per share for Q1 dropped from $6.67 the previous year to $3.23 in 2008. The figures nonetheless beat Wall Street expectations and the Goldman share price rose in response.
In January of 2010, it was reported that Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the biggest recipients of funds from the U.S. bailout of American International Group Inc., was seen by the public as favored by regulators. The assumption was made as an internal Federal Reserve Bank of New York e-mail became public.[5]
In February of 2010, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. sued seven of its former private wealth management division executives for abruptly leaving the company to join rival Credit Suisse earlier in the month.[6] Three investment professionals at the vice president level, two associates and two managers left Goldman Sachs on Feb. 5 to join Credit Suisse, which had induced the team with tens of millions of dollars for the defection, Goldman said in the court filing.
In April 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was faltering.[7] Goldman Sachs responded in a press release posted on the company Web site, stating that the SEC's charges "were completely unfounded in law and fact and we will vigorously contest them and defend the firm and its reputation."[8]
In July 2010, the SEC announced that Goldman Sachs will pay $550 million and reform its business practices to settle SEC charges that Goldman misled investors in a subprime mortgage product just as the U.S. housing market was starting to collapse.[9] In agreeing to the SEC's largest-ever penalty paid by a Wall Street firm,[10] Goldman also acknowledged that its marketing materials for the subprime product contained incomplete information.
Goldman agreed to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying the allegations by consenting to the entry of a final judgment that provides for a permanent injunction from violations of the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933. Of the $550 million to be paid by Goldman in the settlement, $250 million would be returned to harmed investors through a Fair Fund distribution and $300 million would be paid to the U.S. Treasury.[11]
The landmark settlement also requires remedial action by Goldman in its review and approval of offerings of certain mortgage securities.
In July 2011, after a disappointing earnings report, where earnings from trading debt, currencies and commodities tumbled 63 percent from the previous quarter, Goldman announced plans to cut approximately 1000 jobs. As of June 2011, the company employed nearly 35,500 people.[12]
Key PeopleLloyd C. Blankfein[13] was appointed to both positions at Goldman in June of 2006 after a two-year stint as Goldman's president and chief operating officer. He had been co-head of Goldman's Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) division from its inception in 1997 until 2003, when he became its head, and also served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2002 to 2004. In fiscal 2007 Blankfein's salary package from Goldman totalled $27,585, 474, including $26,985,474 in bonuses, BusinessWeek reported.[14] By contrast, Bank of America Chairman and CEO Kenneth D. Lewis pulled down $1.5 million in fiscal 2007 while Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO John Mack made $800,000, although Blankfein's official salary is listed at $600,000 annually.
- ↑ History and Growth. Goldman Sachs.
- ↑ Goldman Sachs History 1999. Goldman Sachs.
- ↑ 2007 Annual Report. Goldman Sachs.
- ↑ Goldman Sachs (GS), Lehman (LEH) beat earnings estimates. Investor's Observer.
- ↑ Goldman Viewed as Favored by Regulators, Fed Says. Bloomberg.
- ↑ Goldman Sues Seven Former Executives For C.Suisse Move. Yahoo! News.
- ↑ SEC Accuses Goldman Sachs Of Civil Fraud. Associated Press.
- ↑ Press Release. Goldman Sachs.
- ↑ Press Release. SEC.
- ↑ Litigation Press Release. SEC.
- ↑ Consent Press Release. Bloomberg.
- ↑ Goldman Sachs Plans Job Cuts as Debt Trading Misses Estimates. SEC.
- ↑ Lloyd C. Blankfein Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Goldman Sachs.
- ↑ Lloyd C. Blankfein. BusinessWeek.


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Sad enough, but also A reality.
I was interested on XNA at first (I mean XNA 1.0). It's sad to see that this is dying.
I dunno. My impression is that DirectX is not and will not get a lot of marchitecture/press loving, but it's still there and evolving into DX11.1 then 12. To use DX, my understanding is that you'll need to write native C++ code and run it over WinRT, which will also then allow you access to the Windows appstore. (Or stay "old school" and go through Win32, but no app store.) Games that need a performance edge will go this route over time.
Some rumors are floating of an XNA 5 for Win8, but admittedly haven't talked about it much to others. The reason you won't see the current XNA in Win8 essentially has to do with DirectX9 and how that would be a massive port for ARM devices. Given that the next Xbox will likely be a DX11 device, if there is XNA or an XNA-like layer for Win8/vNext, it will be a different beast than the current XNA, and will be appstore-friendly. Just my guessing right now as the silence is deafening. :)
Actually, it's the appstore that I find most worrisome (esp. to indies) and a radical departure, if you want to deliver Metro (style? themed? sexual?) games. I'm currently quite confused by the various ways you can put APIs (and devices, notably ARM devices) together and possibly include/exclude yourself from the appstore. It's a mess. Can you figure it out eventually? Sure. But, it's really inelegant.
Anyways, lots will change…but slowly. Look at how slowly Win7 is being adopted and it's not radically different, except for end-users having to chase down files and buttons placed in different places. This is a radical change for Windows, and will surely lead to even slower adoption rates than Win7 has.
DX will continue to evolve no doubt, but I won't shed a tear if they decide to toss XNA one day. Although I can't see that happening anytime soon due to MS tightly integrating XNA and Silverlight into their mobile platform (and soon to be / or already released for XBox). Meanwhile, MS is putting a lot of focus on the mobile market with their WP and upcoming Win8 tablet. There will be bumps on the road, but I can't see anything major.
maybe they are running out of ideas how to improve writing directx apps.
look at displacement mapping - what a big deal they made about it but it didnt really catch on because you can just about make a textured model look just as good anyway. (look at rage for example, which has no normal mapping or displacement mapping)
With CUDA or OPENCL havent they basicly totally destroyed all limitations now? and you can almost write a from scratch rasterer - your own personal accellerated direct x… (or maybe raytracer makes more sense) with the video card.
The only thing direct x really does is open up the possibilities for parallel processing on the video card, I actually would prefer a completely empty api which simply does that, I dont need code written for me, or id probably use an engine if I did.
Maybe the future will lie in simplifying the api, not complicating it or adding more features, none of it is really needed.
If its not entirely impossible, id actually be interested in alternate gpgpu strategies other than the dx11 way (stream output geometry shaders, complex pixel shaders with lots of texture lookups- just the basic way you twist dx11 to do what you need - to get the needed video card performance)
I think maybe dx11 could be recoded with gpgpu as the head factor involved, I actually think its invention did confuse the api a little - no direct x isnt necessarily just for games, and you can accellerate more than just rendering triangles, but CUDA is basicly this no? I dont think alot of people would have thought of gpgpu, these days voxels are just as easily accellerated as triangle engines, but I remember back in the nasty old days people didnt think of that - even Ken Silverman I remember said "pity only software is allowed for voxels." but its not true.
GPGPU is the future, and maybe there should be a new api similar to CUDA or OPENCL, maybe with more user friendliness in mind? - I have to admit accessing the 3d(!!) core arrays is a little confusing in CUDA, maybe theres some easier way to go about abstracting the video card (which isnt necessarily just for video computations, so even that is a poor term these days.) into a programmable language.
Please don't start another discussion about the future of XNA, I got involved in this one (http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/91616.aspx) and you can see what happened.
As far as we know, XNA will be supported on mobile devices for some time, how long that will be is an unknown.
XNA will not be supported on windows 8, except on x86 systems, and then only in legacy mode.
DirectX is set to continue, with DX12 being supported on windows 8, at least for desktop devices (tablets …. guess, I don't know)
The focus for all manufacturers now seems to be HTML 5 with some sort of 3D api on top, even though the only one that is currently available is WebGL, it's not looking like that will be the standard.
In short (too late) it's a mess.
Nobody, even in Microsoft can give a clear description of the environment we will be asked to support in two years time.
Interesting how the most "depressing" part of the article is seemingly the "DirectX has been demoted to a standard, uninteresting Windows API just like all the others". Well… Filesystem management is uninteresting and boring and I can't see it being disposed of. I think this is actually great news.
I want the platform I'm developing for to be as boring as possible and as transparent as possible. That would just mean to me that the framework is mature. I don't want my potential customers even to be aware of existence of a thing like DirectX. It's supposed to be "Windows" for them. Don't worry. Neither DirectX or file system support isn't going anywhere any time soon :)
About the XNA - it's a very neat framework for .NET games and I doubt Microsoft is going to stop supporting .NET any time soon. Unless they have something better / easier to enter up their sleeve.
There's no reason to panic. After all, there's still OpenGL to work with.
If only..
Microsoft have already announced they are dropping .Net
I work with OpenGL all the time, which is why I miss XNA
At the moment my code has to go through a complicated detection system and either use OpenGLES 1.0 based renderer, or OpenGLES 2.0, or software.
Thanks to the lovely people at Khronos, w e don't even have a reliable way of loading OpenGLES 2.0 shaders.
Please someone go postal at Microsoft until we get some common sense
May you live in interesting times
Can't remember exactly when it was announced, it was a while ago.
However there are plenty of sites covering the issues thrown up by windows 8
.Net and Silverlight now "legacy" technologies
Windows 8 based on javascript and Html 5 instead of .Net
Take your head out the ground and look around :P
Wow, there is a lot of bad information here. Lets clear some things up!
1) C#, C++, and HTML5 are all first class citizens in windows 8.
Silverlight, WPF, XNA are all being culled, mostly because they are being made redundant via WinRT/DirectX/Metro.
What they want you to do is write all your Native -> Managed glue code with C++/CLI. It doesn't make much sense to manage 2 graphics APIs at the same time. I'm betting that the next Xbox and next windows phone will be running restricted subsets of windows 8, similar to how XNA is a restricted subset of .NET.
2) XNA is going the way of the dinosaur. Brush up on your DirectX!
Yes, it is, and that's not a bad thing. SharpDX is a much better option than XNA, and I have no doubt that we will be seeing other solutions in the near future. MonoGame will probably be ported to use DirectX in the wake of this.
3) Try out the SDK for yourself!
Get some first hand knowledge, and don't rely on old blog posts. Toss it in a Virtual Machine or a spare box. Get something running with SharpDX. It's really not all that bad.
Microsoft have already announced they are dropping .Net
I'm pretty sure they are not dropping .NET in Win8. They are creating a .NET Metro profile for the .NET Framework over WinRT, which obviously affects what you can and cannot do with the broader .NET environment in general. You can use C#, managed C++, etc, to work in this "silo".This is to align themselves with the Windows app store and allow sandboxed Metro apps with easy downloads.
That's what I thought at first, but after a lot of discussions, both on forums and with real Ms employees, I don't think that's correct.
The problem is we just don't know.
One set of people I have talked to give me the impression that this is the new setup.
C# dead
.Net dead
XNA dead
Silverlight dead
DirectX alive
Development done in Html 5 and javascript with some kind of interface to directx for 3d
Which I kind of call the worse case scenario
Another set are saying
XNA dead
Silverlight dead
C# alive but limited
DirectX alive
Development c++ with gui done in Html 5 and javascript
I suspect the truth will be somewhere in between the two cases
I don't think most people who work for Ms know yet
Hmm. Your worst case seems a little beyond extreme. Should it be true, it would be kinda doomsday for MS. But crazier things have happened.
I wonder how working on MW4 in JS is like? Is idTech6 HTML5-based? amirite? :)
I think you should listen to your "another set" people rather than thinking the truth lying between the reasonable and crazy. Many people are confusing what can and can't be done in Metro versus the Desktop style apps. The Metro "subplatform" is new and much more limited, because of its newness and its inherent casual "appstore", sandboxed-for-security orientation. Also, they are obviously trying to do a reasonably-paced migration from Win32 to WinRT, which will allow MS to bring in ARM.
IMO, the best way to see it is this diagram from Doug Seven.
One set of people I have talked to give me the impression that this is the new setup.
C# dead
.Net dead
XNA dead
Silverlight dead
DirectX alive
Development done in Html 5 and javascript with some kind of interface to directx for 3d
Seriously, try out the windows 8 beta with the developer tools. C# is there in all it's glory. .NET isn't going anywhere.
Watch the vidcast by Anders Hejlsberg
Looks to me like C# 5 is right around the corner.
As for XNA under windows 8, this is about the best information that I've been able to find.
XNA will be supported under windows 8.
XNA will not support the Metro Interface.What remains to be seen is if it will be runnable on windows 8 for ARM. You will still be able to sell them in the windows app store.
Silverlight is quickly making it's way to End of Line, but, and this is a very big but… Silverlight and WPF applications can become metro applications with only a few small changes to the code in most cases. IE10 / Metro won't have Silverlight. but It also won't have flash, activeX, Java, or any browser plugins of any sort.
Silverlight 5: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/future/ can be considered as a stop gap measure / preview into metro app development, since the API should be nearly identical.
IE10: Pluginless browsing experience http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx
DirectX will continue to live long and prosper.
Here is what I've been able to find on the java-script so far.
Here is the landing page for WinJS, the javascript interface for windows 8
It doesn't look like there's a way out of that.
Now, something interesting that I also stumbled upon is win32 and COM bindings for Metro style applications
@PnP Bios
XNA will not support the Metro Interface.
XNA doesn't support any UI, you have to program one :) Although MS
recently bridged XNA with Silverlight for use in WP 7.5, so only MS
knows what's going on there.
@PnP Bios
but, and this is a very big but… Silverlight and WPF applications can become metro applications with only a few small changes to the code in most cases
Silverlight is primarily C# + XAML. Since both are supported in Win8, I
imagine the effort to port will be minimal. Although I think moving
forward companies are going to invest in HTML 5 due to its capabilities
and platform independence. The "future of Silverlight" question has been
raised since its inception and has never been quashed.
I wonder how working on MW4 in JS is like?
Well, someone rendered Rage in WebGL, so the possibility is there ;)
PnP Bios, I think what you are missing is the fact that windows 8 will still support various technologies **in legacy mode**
As far as I can see legacy mode is a bit like running win32 apps on windows 7, you can do it, but you are flagging the app as ancient technology
Now who in their right mind is going to develop a brand new game and immediately label it as ancient technology?
On top of that legacy mode does not exist on arm based tablets, so if
you want to hit that market, Html 5 and Js is your only option.
I'm not even sure directx will be available on that market.
I have seen a lot of the links you posted, but then I have talked to people in Ms. I don't think even most of Ms employees know where they are going.
As far as I can tell, someone in Ms has seen the sales of tablet devices and decided that this is the market Ms want to be in, even if this comes at the cost of screwing up the laptop and desktop market.
Wether that is brilliant clairvoyance, or a massive mistake only time will tell.
For me I have basically dropped all windows development and moved into a cross platform environment. ( www.antixlabs.com )
After the best part of 25 years dealing with Ms' sudden changes of direction and buggy code I have given up
Stainless, I think you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
As far as I can see legacy mode is a bit like running win32 apps on windows 7, you can do it, but you are flagging the app as ancient technology
Now who in their right mind is going to develop a brand new game and immediately label it as ancient technology?
Win32 is not legacy on windows 7. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/ee633449
Win32 + The COM APIs are still the defacto method for writing applications in native code under windows 7
All your favorite games, from Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, and so on, are all still being written in Direct3D and win32.
On top of that legacy mode does not exist on arm based tablets, so if you want to hit that market, Html 5 and Js is your only option.
I'm not even sure directx will be available on that market.
Metro, .NET, WinRT, and DirectX will be available on all windows 8 devices. Win32 will not be, this has never been in dispute. Your assumption that HTML5 and JS are your only option is the result of an inability to read, faulty comprehension, or just plain ignorance.
Direct X will be available for ARM, primarily because it's the low level rendering API for the entire stack. Just as a reminder as to why this is technologically possible, remember that windows phone 5 and 6 also supported direct 3d. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa452478.aspx So DirectX on a tablet isn't exactly a fresh concept.
I have seen a lot of the links you posted, but then I have talked to people in Ms. I don't think even most of Ms employees know where they are going.
I have friends that work at Microsoft too. Unless your friends work in those departments that produce this software, their speculation is as good as ours. I wouldn't count forums gossip as Microsoft endorsed speech either.
As far as I can tell, someone in Ms has seen the sales of tablet devices and decided that this is the market Ms want to be in, even if this comes at the cost of screwing up the laptop and desktop market.
This is again, ignorant of the windows 8 developer build that has been freely available for some time now. You continue to offer commentary on a product you do not use.
After the best part of 25 years dealing with Ms' sudden changes of direction and buggy code I have given up
If this is surprising to you then you haven't really been developing with Microsoft products for 25 years. The introduction of COM, MFC, ActiveX, Visual J++, Windows Mobile, etc…
Actually, since I posted that image, it seems that there is some debate as to whether WinRT sits alongside and is similar to Win32, or sits above Win32.The issue is that there seems to be some dependencies between WinRT and Win32, but personally, I think that it's just for convenience at having to build a whole new stack. As more stuff gets written for WinRT, I expect Win32 to be quietly retired.


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Dennis Peacock
Imagine... Enriching
Lives Through Art
Other Voices - Sculpture Garden
Peacock's sculpture , (Other) Voices, echoes the theme of ascension and the choices found along life's pathways but in anon-representational, three dimensional form. Peacock, who often uses poetry as "a way of getting to my own ideas", was inspired by a poem by Arthur Nortje, called the 'forgotten poet of South Africa.' The fourth stanza from Nortje's poem London Impressions II speaks of "having learnt the value of other faces, acquired the pace and tone of other voices."
The curved shapes seen in (Other) Voices, repeatedly appear in different forms in Peacock's work. These rib-like forms allude to human and animal ribcages; the skeletal, structural underpinnings of boats; and the vaulted ceilings of medieval churches. Abstracted, linear, elongated minimalist, and graceful, Peacock's characteristic forms also refer to the artist's enduring childhood memory of a large ship beached on the Oregon coast. Peacock's sculpture embrace their surrounding space while reaching out in different directions: leading the way, pointing out new directions, and offering many choices.
(Other) Voices is the 16th project completed in the Artworks for State Buildings Program, a North Carolina Arts Council project. One of the strengths of the program has been the diversity of the artworks. Artists have created artworks reflecting the needs of each project's community and the site's unique history, character, relevance or use. As a result, this public art collection reflects North Carolina's rich, broad range of people and experiences, from rural to urban settings.


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Women's Relay Team Highlights Day One of Big Meet
Feb. 10, 2012
Complete Results | Photo Gallery
ALLENDALE, Mich. - Alia McAfee, Shandel Ellis, Sade Sealy and Jordan Frey of the women's 4X400-meter relay team break a school record as the Illinois State men's and women's track & field team concludes competition of day one of the Big Meet hosted by Grand Valley State in Allendale, Mich.
The women's 4X400-meter relay, anchored with a fast leg by Ellis, finished in first place with a time of 3:43.38, 32-hundredths of a second faster than the previous school mark. Prior to her performance in the relay, Ellis ran to a second-place finish in the 200-meter dash, establishing a new career-time of 24.67.
Head track & field coach Elvis Forde was pleased with the performances by his team.
"Overall, we had a good day," said Forde. "Our 4X400-meter relay established a new school mark, with one of the four members having limited training over the past few weeks, so I am pleased with that. For Shandel to run as aggressive as she did today shows how competitive she can be at the conference level. We need to build off the solid performances from today and carry them over into tomorrow and into the next two weeks before the MIssouri Valley Championships."
Continuing on the track, the women's 3,000-meter run saw solid performances from all the competitors. Aisha Praught continues her successful season, finishing second in the event with a new personal-best time of 9:35.03, the third fastest all-time in ISU history. Junior Elise Sigg finished 9:50.57, three seconds off her career-best, while Rachael Brewer and Ashley Kamin each bettered their personal-bests by more than 10 seconds, running 10:01.54 and 10:11.63, respectively.
In the field, Brittany Smith continued bettering her weight throw mark, this time missing the automatic NCAA Championship qualifying mark by one centimeter. Her distance of 68-10.50 improves her personal-best and school-record by five inches. Curt Jensen added almost a foot to his shot put personal-best, throwing 59-08.50, the second-best in Redbird history. Akil Mills rounded out the top performances for the throwers, launching the weight 66-02.25 for third all-time on the ISU performance list.
The Redbirds are back in action Saturday, Feb. 11, for day two of the Big Meet. The meet starts at 10 a.m.
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